Skip to main content

Search from vocabulary

Content language

Concept information

Preferred term

Winston Churchill  

Definition

  • Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was British politician and statesman, Nobel laureate in literature, prime minister from 1940 to 1945 and 1951 to 1955, and a leader of the free world in World War II. He is the son of a possible alcoholic, Lord Randolph Churchill, whose early death was, however, not ascribed to alcoholism and who spoke out against heavy drinking, and the father of a probable alcoholic, Randolph Churchill. [Source: The SAGE Encyclopedia of Alcohol: Social, Cultural, and Historical Perspectives; Churchill, Winston]

Belongs to group

URI

https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/Winston_Churchill

Download this concept: